Judges 5:19
The kings came and fought, the kings of Chanaan fought in Thanach by the waters of Mageddo, and yet they took no spoils.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Venerunt reges et pugnaverunt : pugnaverunt reges Chanaan in Thanach juxta aquas Mageddo, et tamen nihil tulere prædantes.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἦλθον αὐτῶν βασιλεῖς, παρετάξαντο· τότε ἐπολέμησαν βασιλεῖς Χανάαν, ἐν Θαναὰχ ἐπὶ ὕδατι Μεγεδδώ· δῶρον ἀργυρίου οὐκ ἔλαβον.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- בָּ֤אוּ מְלָכִים֙ נִלְחָ֔מוּ אָ֤ז נִלְחֲמוּ֙ מַלְכֵ֣י כְנַ֔עַן בְּתַעְנַ֖ךְ עַל מֵ֣י מְגִדּ֑וֹ בֶּ֥צַע כֶּ֖סֶף לֹ֥א לָקָֽחוּ
Haydock's commentary
Spoils. So far from it, they even lost their lives. (Menochius)
Hebrew, "they took no piece (or gain) of money." If we understand this of the Israelites , we may say that they stopped not to plunder the slain, nor would they suffer any to redeem their life by the promise of a great ransom. Whatever riches they found afterwards, they consecrated to the Lord, in testimony of their gratitude. (Calmet) (Numbers xxxi. 54.)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.